Philip Hirschkop: Quietly Making Noise For 50 Years

Hirschkop’s representation of Richard and Mildred Loving was just a spoonful of his career.

By Randy Maniloff, White and Williams LLP (December 7, 2016, 12:12 PM EST) -- The risk for a lawyer, of starting their career at the top, is obvious. It is hard to imagine one who faced this peril more than Philip Hirschkop. Just one month after his graduation from Georgetown, Hirschkop signed on to represent Richard and Mildred Loving, seeking to invalidate a Virginia statute that criminalized their interracial marriage. Richard was white. Mildred was black. Three years later, in 1967, Hirschkop argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which unanimously held that the law was unconstitutional. Loving v. Virginia put an end to antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia and 15 other states. Loving is now the subject of a major motion picture by that name. The Oscar buzz is louder than a honey farm....

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